I’ve read this text. It’s a good piece, but unrelated to what OP is talking about.

The text boils down to “people who believe that LLMs are smart do so for the same reasons as people who believe that mentalists can read minds do.” OP is not saying anything remotely close to that; instead, they’re saying that LLMs lead to pleasing and insightful conversations in their experience.

My impressions are completely different from yours, but that’s likely due

1. It’s really easy to interpret LLM output as assumptions (i.e. “to vomit certainty”), something that I outright despise.
2. I used Gemini a fair bit more than ChatGPT, and Gemini is trained with a belittling tone.

Even then, I know which sort of people you’re talking about, and… yeah, I hate a lot of those things too. In fact, one of your bullet points (“it understands and responds…”) is what prompted me to leave Twitter and then Reddit.

I couldn’t find it to show you, but I remember an episode of The Osbournes where Ozzy put the pet food bowl in the middle of the kitchen, Sharon warned him “don’t do this, you’ll eventually kick it”, then after some time Ozzy kicked the bowl and blamed their pet for moving the bowl to that position.

I don’t know if Ozzy has victim mentality, but people with victim mentality do this sort of thing all the time - they never acknowledge that they did something that caused them an issue. And that’s bad for both the ones around them and for themselves.

Even when they say to eat an Aussie instead?

and likewise data as [ˈd̪äːt̪ä] “dah-tah.”

More like [ˈd̪ät̪ä], no long vowel. There’s also some disagreements if short /a/ was [ä] or [ɐ], given the symmetry with /e i o u/ as [ɛ ɪ ɔ ʊ]. (I can go deeper on this if anyone wants.)

Another thing that people don’t often realise, when they say “you should pronounce it like in Latin!”, is that Latin /d t/ were different from English/German /d t/. They were considerably less aspirated, and as your transcription shows they were dental.

That’s just details though. Your core point (Latin didn’t use a diphthong in this word) is 100% correct.

English covers hundreds of accents and multiple English speaking countries. There isn’t just one pronunciation.

I’m listing the variants that I use.

I’m aware that all three languages have heavy internal variation; for example the Portuguese word could be also pronounced as ['dä.ðuʃ], and a lot of N. Italian speakers don’t really do the compensatory lengthening that I do.

a specific kind of “R” (I have no English examples on mind

General American rendering of “butter” as [bʌɾɚ] uses it.

Kind of off-topic but “Brazilian Portuguese” is not an actual variety (language or dialect). It’s more like a country-based umbrella term, the underlying varieties (like Baiano, Paulistano, etc.) often don’t share features with each other but do it with non-Brazilian varieties.

There’s a good example of that in your own transcription of the word “arauto” as /a’ɾawto/. You’re probably a Sulista speaker*, like me; the others would raise that vowel to /u/, regardless of country because they share vowel raising. (Unless we’re counting Galician into the bag, as it doesn’t raise /o/ to /u/ either. But Galician is better dealt separately from Portuguese.)

*PR minus “nortchi”, SC minus Florianópolis Desterro, northern RS, Registro-SP.

Desculpe-me pela nerdice não requisitada, ma’ é que adoro falar de idiomas.

It’s both things, and subjected to wide variation:

Source for those pronunciations, Wiktionary.

To complicate it further some varieties merge /ʌ/ and /ə/, or /ɪ/ and /ə/. And I’m not even taking into account varieties using a different consonant, /t θ d f v/.

The other side of it is believing everything is your fault.

Yeah, both are problematic. And for the same reason - the person does not learn to accurately identify when they’re responsible for something and should do something about it, although for different reasons.

Watermelon rinds and citrus peels are perfectly edible and tasty once candied, so don’t waste them. If you’re into booze, dump the citrus peels into vodka, wait a month, then mix the vodka half-and-half with syrup. (I know that this is technically not a food eating trick, but still - waste not, want not.)

While not a food eating trick, chopsticks are also great when you’re deep-frying food - they allow you to firmly hold it for flipping, without piercing it or spooning oil.

I had a supermarket pizza (you know, the one that you buy assembled but raw) and a latte.

English: /'dɑ:tə/ ['dɑ:tʰə]~['dɑ:ʔə]. The first “a” is the same as in “father”.

Italian: /'da.ta/ ['dä:ta]. There’s only way to read the word anyway.

Portuguese: I don’t use it. There’s a native equivalent, “dados” /'da.dos/ ['dä.dos] (dado = a piece of data).

I’m not suggesting Arch, but Arch-based distros. Manjaro doesn’t break anywhere as often as Arch does.

…or alternatively go with Mint and re-learn how to handle the packages. pacman vs. APT is not a big deal anyway.

I was focusing mostly on your incorrect claim about account ages. The reliability of the information (speculation vs. solid info) is another can of worms.

The reason why you see mostly speculation is because nobody knows how the algo work, except people inside Reddit itself. The most that people can do is to analyse patterns, and come up with a hypothesis explaining it; and while doing so by subjective means is by no means optimal, it is better than nothing.

Where’s your critical thinking ?

Critical thinking is to neither change the goalposts once people contradict your claim, nor to conflate hypotheses with gullibleness-based argumentation (“I swear it’s true bro”).

Its all just to play games.

Ditto - that W3.11 install is just because of the Windows Entertainment Pack, I love a few of the games in it (like Pipe Dream). I don’t even know if it’s able to connect to the internet!

Sorry, I couldn’t resist.

I started with a Knoppix-based distro, called Kurumin. KDE 3 was the rage back then!

On your main point: the shell might be hard in the beginning, but for most things that you need to use the shell with, people on the internet already had the same issue and shared how to do it. Unless you’re actively trying to make something different, like I did with my audio switching script.

And even the sort of situation that you need to use the shell for decreased by a lot from back then to now.

Besides what other users said: if you feel comfortable with SteamOS you might want to give EndeavourOS and Manjaro a check - all three distros are based on Arch Linux, and while Arch is geared towards experienced users the later two try to “sell” it towards a wider audience.

In this context it is - it means that the user saw how Reddit used to be, and is likely informed enough to have a good guess on what’s going on.

(Some accounts there are 12, 13, even 15yo.)